I don't watch as many movies nowadays as I did in my youth but…
The Social Network, Imitation Game, The King's Speech
They like to pick history you don't know well and teach it to you their way. Now you have it in your head that it happened that way and it takes effort to unlearn what you've seen with your own eyes.
Semi-related, I think Netflix's The Queen series is trying to teach us about the monarchy the way they want us to see it. It's more about narrative control than filmmaking.
Couple of other Black List themes stick out to me:
Sadness and unseen corruption in everyday life and dystopian futures.
They like smart, well-written movies that ultimately tend to bring you down even though you thought the movie was interesting and well-executed.
Guess I know why I don't watch as many movies as I used to.
And it works! Very difficult convincing spouse that the movie wasn't TRUTH. It's such a good story.
Wow. Now I never watched MILK - don't much like Sean Penn and not much interested in homophobia.
But if it's true that it's all about Jim Jones, I'd like to hear that story.
Yes.
Thanks for the info, Anon. I just added this to my research list.
Question: will large numbers of people see this movie?
I notice with myself that I started to see through their narratives years ago - or maybe not the purposeful manipulation necessarily, but their underlying philosophies and emphases started coming through.
It takes me out of the fantasy world and makes me think and then the spell is broken.
Hollywood has had attendance problems of late. Are too many people seeing behind the curtain?
With RBG, it looks like a propaganda piece on its face so you'll never get me in the theater.
Rewrite the '60s/'70s with The Post and Chappaquiddick.
The younger people don't remember these stories and haven't done their own research.
Make the establishment Post look like a hero revolutionary instead of a latecomer.
Make Kennedy look sympathetic and ask a "what if if hadn't happened?" question.
Again, these are really transparent movies to me now. Unwatchable.
Ah, the Winklevi.
They are how I finally convinced spouse about The Social Network movie being made up. Their involvement in Bitcoin, which looks more and more like a Clown operation, made Facebook look like it might be too.
Combine it with Harvard with president Larry Summers and it was too much Clownishness to stand up to scrutiny.
I think you're right. But I also think it won't work.